Dry land farming and stockmen face Montana challenge
The Mutual Oil Company urges unity as Montana endures a drought era. It cites persistent dry land farming struggles, livestock reversals, and business impact, stressing shared success. Examples cite AL Hull's 1916 farm yields and bank balance, advocating scientific methods and broader farmer engagement.
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Hult
Mutual Oil Company
Great Falls
Montana
Hull
Collins
Minors at Poplar Dances Require Chaperones
Poplar voters consider a proposal to bar minors from public dances unless accompanied by a parent or an accredited chaperone. The ordinance limits a chaperone to overseeing no more than two youths, aiming to prevent overextension of chaperone duties.
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Poplar
Beaverhead News Roundup of Local Events and Demographics
Wm O Rourke visits Dell to organize a local oil land company with 160 acre tracts to be located west of Dell. Duke Gist and Richard Gallagher attend district court and land sales. Social Eight hosts at Mrs G T Paul home. basketball exhibition set in Dillon theatre featuring city teams. Census shows Beaverhead county with 73 Chinese and 89 Japanese residents in 1900, Montana total 1739 Chinese and 2441 Japanese. early counts note zero Japs in 1880 and five in 1890 including one in Beaverhead.
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Wm. O’rourke
Richard Gallagher
Beaverhead County
G. T. Paul
Dillon Theatre
Montana
Rankin Rules on Good Time in State Prison
Attorney General Wellington D. Rankin issues an opinion to W. M. Swarthout clarifying good time calculation for state penitentiary inmates. The board of prison commissioners may grant duration independent of whether a prisoner is under Indeterminate, applying the time to the judgment year as directed by law.
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Rankin
Wellington D. Rankin
W. M. Swarthout
Board of Prison Commissioner
Prison Board
Real Estate Transfers Week Ending November 26
Transfers include A. 5. Johnson to Chris Snyder of multiple lots in Barnett's addition Dillon and J. B. McLaren to F. P. Harrison of blocks 11 and 16 17. Allie F. Hughes to Harrison lot 4 block 47 Dillon. Wakefields in Lima. Nellie Wakefield to Ed Gleed. Wilson to Sanders Pay Master Quartz Lode south west of Pay Master tunnel Banack Mining. Prather to State Bank of Dillon 120 acres Centennial Valley. Kenner to Gertrude Logan 320 acres Centennial. Florence Ames to Leo Pfiffner 320 acres plus 280 acres nearby Redrock station on O S L.
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Deeds A. 5
Allie F. Hughes
F. P. Harrison
Dillon
Lawrence B. Wakefield
Nellie Wakefield
Lima
Ed Gleed
Charles L. A. O. Wilson
Frank T Sanders
Bannack
Otto Prather
State Bank of
Centennial Valley
John L. Kenner
Gertrude Logan
Florence Ames
Leo M. Pfiffner
Redrock Station
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Royal Baking Powder Co
Price Cook B. Sye
Treaiea
Ireal Estate
Books of
Southern Montana
Abstract and Title Company
Chesterfield
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
Garette
Dillon Furniture Company
ADCO
Adco Dry Storage Battery Co
Chicago
Dillon Auto Company
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